Tech week in review: P2P battles, Android on Ubuntu, and more

Ars looks back at the most important tech stories from the past week, …

Just as the northern hemisphere is heating up as we move towards the summer solstice, so is the rhetoric between the RIAA and its legal adversaries.

Harvard law professor Charles Nesson has gotten involved in another file-sharing lawsuit, and he's making another demand of the recording industry. Nesson says that the RIAA will need to cough up over $100 million that he believes it has obtained from the 30,000+ lawsuits it's filed, should the cases he's currently involved in succeed.

The developers over at Canonical have been busy lately. Not only are they working on the Ubuntu Netbook Remix, but they are also building an execution environment for Android applications. Android apps will be able to run on Ubuntu, opening the door for a whole new ecosystem of third-party software to come to the Linux desktop.

FlightAware slurps up more than 1GB a day in federal radar data in order to map, almost in real time, every commercial flight in the US. Open source tools provide much of the site's power, but its users provide the ingenuity. Ars talked to its two founders and looked at what makes the service tick.

Amazon isn't just about retail. The online shopping behemoth also offers a growing number of cloud computing services. But sometimes getting the data into the cloud can be tough, especially when you're talking about tens of terabytes of data. The solution? Stick the disk in the mail.

You might think you know everything there is to know about the digital TV transition here in the US, but Ars gets gnostic on the topic and digs into the "secret knowledge" about the switch. Dig in and learn everything you need to know in advance of the analog TV shutoff on June 12.